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Teaching Online Journalism » RGMP 2: Start a blog — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:33:24 +0000

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By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:05:48 +0000

@Tanfa - For all questions like this, go to WordPress.com Support and simply search. You will find the answer.

By: Tanfa

Tanfa — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:49:33 +0000

Is there a way to insert a video into a wordpress blog without an embed code?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:55:55 +0000

I agree but my experience is that you kind of have a responsibility by association – at least in some peoples eyes. If a student blogs and says on their blog that they are a student at xyz then xyz can expect a bit of any problems that may be created.

Not saying it’s right. I agree that letting them set up covers 99.9 of things. It’s how I’ve done it this year and so far (touch wood) 200 students have behaved, even if some haven’t blogged as much as they could or should have.

By: Cynthia McCune

Cynthia McCune — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:47:17 +0000

Thanks for the timely post. The new WP dashboard will take a little getting used to, but I’m happy to see that tags and categories are now more visible on the right-hand side of the “add a new post” form. I kept forgetting them when they were out of sight down below the form.

I also prefer to make my students set up their own blogs. I want them to take ownership of what they write, and figure out how to manage their own blogs…not just post a few things on my class blog.

Elisa Camahort, one of the founders of BlogHer, once described blogging as “a gateway drug of technology.” I agree wholeheartedly, but for that to work students need to have their own blogs.